It seems like there isn't as many materials, research and discussions on tonal languages as those of English.
If you are learning or have learned some tonal languages like Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese, to name a few, do you consider the pronunciation challenging? What is the most challenging part? The tones, tone change (like those in many Chinese languages/dialects), vowels or consonants? And how do you (wish to) overcome it?
How useful do you find this Youtube video?
Mastering Tones in Thai Chinese and other Tonal Languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV1F8ZE_AyA
p.s. I am a native speaker of 2 tonal languages, Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese. But it is only recently that I started teaching myself to read and write Taiwanese, which is not taught in schools officially and systematically. And I find it hard to explain the characteristics like tones and tone change to non-native speakers :p
Xin chào!
I'm looking for online dictionaries to help with the learning of Vietnamese. Does anyone have any recommendations? Right now I just double check between Cambridge Dictionary and google translate, which is very exhausting and probably not very accurate.
To Vietnamese people: What online dictionaries or resources do you use when learning foreign language, especially Mandarin Chinese and English?
To Vietnamese learners: What online dictionaries or resources do you use to help yourself learn Vietnamese?
Thank you everyone!
